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On April 6, 1994, the Rwandan president's plane was shot down by a missile. The next day, the government encouraged the Hutu majority to assassinate their Tutsi neighbors along with those Hutus who tried to protect them. Thus began the greatest genocide of the last decades. In the one hundred days that elapsed until the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the Tutsi guerrilla, put an end to the massacre by taking control of the country, 800,000 people died according to the most conservative estimates, almost 10,000 a day, 400 an hour, 7 per hour. minute; most of them with machetes, the weapon of choice. In this extraordinary report -a classic of contemporary journalism- Philip Gourevitch sets out on a journey to the heart of darkness to investigate the reasons for such a heinous bloodbath. His lucid and intelligent prose unmasks the passivity of the international community, which paralyzed such a carnage, preferring not to take risks in the face of a country that until now had been exemplary and had no oil or wealth to offer. The result, after several trips to Rwanda and hundreds of interviews and conversations with victims and executioners, is this breathtaking narrative -winner of numerous international awards such as the Guardian First Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the George Polk Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-, which will not leave any reader indifferent.